The remaining members, Ivor Frank, Dru Sharpling (both barristers), inquiry expert Professor Alexis Jay, and legal adviser and leading human rights lawyer, Ben Emmerson QC, are all original inquiry members. The current line up confirms our prediction that the new inquiry would be dominated by legal minds. Quite why it took so long to unveil a largely old inquiry panel is not known but survivors consulted on the new panel appear to be pleased with the result. And that’s all that matters.

Original panel members that did not make it onto the new panel are survivors Graham Wilmer and Sharon Evans, Dame Moira Gibb, Professor Jenny Pearce and Professor Terence Stephenson. The new inquiry panel is greatly slimmed down – from 7 (8 if you include the expert adviser position) to just 4. This was a deliberate move on Goddard’s part – she is hoping that a smaller panel will be more cohesive, and less cumbersome.

We are also told that Theresa May is still considering the timeline for the inquiry and in line with Chair Lowell Goddard’s thinking, is contemplating going further back than the 1970s. There will however, be no cut off date for claims which can still be investigated, no doubt a welcome initiative for survivors who fall foul of the agreed timeline.

Mrs. Goddard will be writing to survivors to let them know of her intention to set up a standalone panel, which will be a survivors’ and victims’ consultative panel (SVCP). She will be asking survivors and victims for their views on how this panel should work and who should be on it. The idea behind the SVCP is, as Goddard puts it, to ensure that the core panel is as impartial as possible whilst being able to work closely with survivors and victims.

Terms of reference have now been agreed, and will be published today. We are also told that with the terms of reference confirmed and new panel in place, the inquiry now has statutory status. This will allow the Chair to compel witnesses to give evidence before the inquiry, and to secure materials relating to the inquiry.

On behalf of 130 foster carers who on allegations only by social workers had the children they were caring for taken away, Governments and Ofsted have now launched on behalf of the wrongly accused foster carers an Independent review into the allegationshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-31853361

Now is the time for the thousands of families also wrongly accused on allegations to sign this petition and to forward to all face book and your contacts.

If Governments and Ofstead can launch an independent review on behalf of foster carers then the families must also demand the same, or is there a motive why foster cares wrongly accused are now being supported but not the families

Families need the return of the children screaming to be heard who are the silent witnesses and here lies the truth

On behalf of the wrongly accused families I will be writing to Ofsted and Government departments also asking for an independent enquiry